The Virgins To Meet The Bridegroom Of The Marriage Of The Kingdom Of The Heaven
Matthew 25:1-13 reads,
25:1
"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. 25:2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 25:3Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 25:4but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 25:5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 25:6But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 25:7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 25:8The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 25:9But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there will not be enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 25:10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 25:11Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 25:12But he answered, ‘Most assuredly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Matthew 22:1-14 And 25:1-13 Are Referring To The Same Marriage Feast
Aren't Matthew 22:1-14 and 25:1-13 referring to the same marriage feast the king of the kingdom of heaven, Father Yahweh, holds for his son, Yah'shuah? Isn't the focus of 22:1-14 the dealings between Father Yahweh and the guests invited to the marriage feast? Isn't the focus of 25:1-13 the dealings between the bridegroom and the virgins betrothed to him for marriage connected with this marriage feast?
The Virgins Are Different From The Invited Guests
Aren't these virgins a group of people entirely separate from the invited guests? Whereas the role of invited guests was one of accepting or rejecting the invitation to the marriage feast, isn't the role of the virgins one of waiting for the bridegroom in readiness to accompany him to the marriage feast? Isn't the role of the virgins that of those who are playing an essential part in the marriage feast - accompanying the bridegroom to and at the feast?
Five Different Groups Of Persons Present At The Marriage Feast
Aren't there five separate groups of persons mentioned with respect to this marriage feast? Are these not: Father Yahweh the king of the kingdom of heaven, Yah'shuah the son of the king of the kingdom of heaven, the virgins to meet the bridegroom and accompany him to and at the marriage feast, the servants of the king of the kingdom of heaven and the invited guests?
Who accompanies a bridegroom at a marriage feast? Isn't it the bridegroom's bride who accompanies him at the marriage feast?
Yah'shuah Portrays Himself As A Polygynous Husband
Hasn't Yah'shuah portrayed himself by his words in 25:1-13 as a bridegroom to be accompanied at his marriage feast by five brides - five virgins? Hasn't Yah'shuah portrayed himself by his own words as a polygynous husband, to be married to more than one virgin on the same occasion?
Polygyny Is Within Yahweh's Law
Considering that this is the practice in the kingdom of heaven isn't it the case that polygyny is within the law of the kingdom of heaven? Isn't it the case that polygyny is within Yahweh's law? Isn't it therefore the case that polygyny is not adultery? Isn't it therefore the case that a man can be married to more than one woman at the same time and not be committing adultery?
Why Are Many Professing To Follow Yah'shuah Calling His Righteousness Adultery?
Then why do many professing to follow Yah'shuah teach that it is adultery for a man to be married to more than one woman at the same time? Why are many by this teaching accusing Yah'shuah of adultery, seeing that Yah'shuah has already stated that he will indeed take the part of the bridegroom in a polygynous marriage feast? Why are many teaching for doctrine the traditions of men, rather than Yah'shuah and Yahweh's own words?
Teach For Doctrine Yahweh's Words And Not Human Tradition
Shouldn't we be teaching Yahweh's own words, thereby worshipping him in spirit and in truth? Shouldn't we be avoiding vainly worshipping him, by teaching for doctrine human traditions?
Can A Woman Legally Put Away Her Husband?
Mark 10:10-12 reads,
10:10
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 10:11He said to them, "Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 10:12If a woman herself puts away her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."Don't Yah'shuah's words in 10:12 show that it is indeed possible for a woman to put away her husband? Don't Yah'shuah's words also show that she commits adultery by marrying another man after she has put away her husband? Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that she has no authority from Yahweh to put away her husband? Isn't the manner that she commits adultery in her new marriage on account of her still being wife to the man that she has put away? Doesn't this mean that her action in putting away her husband is futile before Yahweh, for it does not sever her one flesh union with her husband? Doesn't this mean that Yahweh still considers her married to the husband that she has put away?
Yah'shuah Returns To Earth After His Marriage Feast
Luke 12:35-40 reads,
12:35
"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning. 12:36Be like men looking for their lord, when he will return from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. 12:38They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. 12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 12:40Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him."
Yah'shuah's Servants On Earth At His Return Will Not Have Been Present At His Marriage Feast
Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that he will come or return to this earth AFTER his marriage feast? Doesn't this mean that his servants on earth alive at the time of his return will not have been present at his marriage feast, seeing that they are the ones to be ready to receive him at his coming and return?
So who will be present at the marriage feast? Isn't it those invited to it?
Yah'shuah's Advice To Those Invited To A Marriage Feast
Luke 14:7-11 reads,
14:7
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, 14:8"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps a more honorable man than you might be invited by him, 14:9and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this man.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. 14:10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."Don't Yah'shuah's words in 14:8 imply that it is appropriate to attend marriage feasts that we are invited to attend?
To Be Yah'shuah's Disciple Love Him More Than You Love Your Family Members
Luke 14:25-26 reads,
14:25
Now great multitudes went with him. He turned and said to them, 14:26"If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that the love we have for him should be greater than the love we have for either our spouses or ourselves?
Yah'shuah Will Greatly Reward Those Who Love Him More Than They Love Family Members Or Property
Luke 18:28-30 reads,
18:28
Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."18:29
He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
Yah'shuah Promises Wives In This Life To A Man Who Has Left A Wife For His Sake
Don't Yah'shuah's words show that we should be ready to leave our spouses for the sake of the kingdom of Yahweh? Don't Yah'shuah's words show that it is indeed appropriate for a man to leave his wife for the sake of the kingdom of Yahweh? And doesn't Yah'shuah promise such a man many times more WIVES in this age, and eternal life in the age to come? In other words, is not Yah'shuah promising a man who has left his wife for his sake more wives in this earthly age, even wives married to him at the same time?
How may a man leave his wife for the sake of the kingdom of Yahweh? Wouldn't this occur in a situation whereby the man has to choose between loving Yah'shuah or loving his wife, in a matter Yah'shuah and his wife do not agree upon?
Marrying And Being Given In Marriage Is For Mortals
Luke 20:34-36 reads,
20:34
Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage. 20:35But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. 20:36For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that marrying and being given in marriage is for those who are mortal?
Yah'shuah And His Disciples Attended A Marriage Feast They Were Invited To
John 2:1-11 reads,
2:1
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. 2:2Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. 2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, "They have no wine."2:4
Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." 2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. 2:7Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim. 2:8He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." They took it. 2:9When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, 2:10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" 2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.Doesn't the example of Yah'shuah, with that of his disciples and his mother, show that it is indeed appropriate for his followers to attend marriage feasts they are invited to?
Yah'shuah's Conversation With A Prostitute
John 4:16-18 reads,
4:16
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."4:17
The woman answered, "I have no husband."Jesus said to her, "You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 4:18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
Doesn't it appear from this conversation between Yah'shuah and the woman that she was living with a man who was not her husband? In other words, doesn't it appear that this woman was a prostitute, in that she was having sexual relations with a man not her husband?
Also, don't the woman and Yah'shuah's words show that it is indeed possible for a woman to live with a man who is not her husband, despite the appearance that they are husband and wife?
How Do A Man And A Woman Properly Become Husband And Wife?
Seeing that it is possible for a man and a woman to live together apparently as husband and wife, and not be so, what constitutes a proper husband and wife relationship? How do a man and a woman become husband and wife?
Isn't it the case that simply having sex, simply becoming one flesh with another, does not make a man and a woman husband and wife? Hadn't the woman been one flesh with a number of men, and was one flesh with the man she was then living with, but was still not his wife? So how do a man and a woman properly become husband and wife?
A Woman Taken In Adultery Brought Before Yah'shuah
John 8:3-11 reads,
8:3
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 8:4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 8:5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?" 8:6They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 8:7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8:8Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
8:9
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. 8:10Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"8:11
She said, "No one, Lord."Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
The Scribes And Pharisees Were Partial In Their Application Of The Law Of Moses
Seeing that the scribes and Pharisees said that Moses commanded them to stone such - those caught in the very act of adultery, why did they accuse only the woman adulteress, leaving to go free the man adulterer? Weren't the scribes and Pharisees partial in their application of the law of Moses? Did the law of Moses allow them to be partial in their application of the penalty for those caught in the act of adultery?
When Yah'shuah, in 8:7, invited those among the accusers devoid of sin to stone the adulteress, might he have implied sin with respect to their accusation against the woman? A sin connected with their partiality in the administration of justice?
Yah'shuah Did Not Condone The Adulteress' Adultery
Didn't Yah'shuah's words to the woman in 8:11 show that he clearly understood adultery to be sin, and commanded the woman not to sin again? Shouldn't we heed Yah'shuah's advice and forsake sin?
Yah'shuah Is Against Sexual Immorality
Revelation 2:12-17 reads,
2:12
"To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write:"He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
2:13
"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. 2:15So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans in the same way. 2:16Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.Doesn't Yah'shuah make very clear in 2:14 that he is against those who commit sexual immorality? Doesn't he urge them to repent of their sexual immorality? Doesn't he also make clear to them that if they do not repent he will make war against them - with the sword of his mouth - his word?
Yah'shuah Punishes Unrepentant Sexually Immoral People
Revelation 2:18-29 reads,
2:18
"To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write:"The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
2:19
I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 2:21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 2:22Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works. 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 2:24But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I don’t lay on you any other burden. 2:25Nevertheless that which you have, hold firmly until I come. 2:26He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him will I give authority over the nations. 2:27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: 2:28and I will give him the morning star. 2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.Doesn't Yah'shuah again make clear in 2:20 that he is against those who commit sexual immorality? Doesn't he also show that he gives sexually immoral people time to repent of their sin? Doesn't he also show that if sexually immoral people do not repent of their sin in the time that he so gives them to repent he punishes them? Doesn't Yah'shuah also show that the teaching and practice of sexual immorality is called by some "the deep things of Satan"?
Sexually Immoral People Will Not Be In The Holy City
Revelation 22:12-16 reads,
22:12
"Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. 22:13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. 22:16I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."Doesn't Yah'shuah make clear that sexually immoral people will not be in the holy city?
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